Del Val Miata Club

I have two Miata's,  including a new RF. I am looking for a mechanic to replace my  1990 NA engine oil gasket. Mazda is charging far too much money. I reside in Morris County.

Thanks.

Thanks very much Morris. Ill give Dave a call. Appreciate you taking the time to respond. 

Bob Ingoglia 

Flanders Nj

Will do. Ive placed a call and am awaiting his call back. Will let you know. 

Gail. You probably saw my red NA in Dave's shop?

The license plate said "MIATA 1"

Based on Morris' recommendation I contacted Dave, left my car and he Is working on it now.  He does seem very knowledgeable about anything Miata. So t that's what I was looking for as in 28 years with the car I have spent virtually nothing on it!

But I do expect a high price tag for the work he is doing now. Probably around  $1k. 

I.met a couple from PA who was picking up their basket case Miata ( red iof course) and they gladly spent $1,600 b/c Dave redid everything for them and their car had over 175,000 miles on the speedometer. 

Money well spent if you want to keep this classic car.

Plus, this is a fraction of the cost a dealership would charge. 

I just now saw everyone's posts about Dave @ T&Z, Glad it ll worked out. By the way he's also a great all around mechanic. Straightened out my friends Audi A6 after he'd been screwed around by Audi service and another private shop. Dave fixed him up and at a fraction of the Audi dealer cost. Aside from  having brought all my Miata's to Dave my track and street Miata's. Dave also works on my track Corvette and street Corvette. I had driven my street vette to the car show in Amelia Is Fl.  3 years ago. My trans went while there. Had it replaced at a Chevy Dealer in Jacksonville. Car did not run right once I got it back. At highway speeds it kind of wobbled. Brought it to Chevy Dealer in Jersey. They could find nothing. They did a new alignment. Brought it to an STS near me. Nice guys, they checked it out and found nothing. I swapped tires with my other Vette. Still got same wobble at high way speeds. Told Dave I was going to replace suspension with coil overs which would have run a minimum of $2k. He said that probably won't change anything and a waste of $. Got it to him and he figured it out. The spec alignment was causing the wobble. He wound up coming up with his own alignment set up and now it drives perfectly straight on the highways and I no longer have my wife asking is it very windy and why's the car feel like it's moving from side to side.

At the end of last years track season my Vette transmission would lock in 4th gear. Called dave re: this. He says, he can probably do it but it's not his thing and above his pay grade. He offered to take the trans out and ship it to a place--but suggested it would be better to give them the whole car so they could diagnose any other potential problems. Wound up shipping the car to Maryland.

He turned down a $4k job. As Dirty Harry once said, A Man Needs To Know His Limitations. And dave knows what he can & can't do. There's not much he can't do.

So, what I'm getting at here is, Dave is not just a Miata guy.